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'3 O o o o 00 o O O Repayment Suit Filed Ifl. Circuit Court Mary H. Bro-.vr, -Arnold lane. Medford. i seeking repayment rit $3,171.62 plus interest on a Iten and foreclosure of a mortg aif; on property owned by Wil- ) (-.Ham J. and Martha Kramer, Merri:nan rd., Medford. accord ing to a complaint filed in cir cuit court this week, o In the corr.plaint. Mrs. Brown I 'ajes she agreed on Sept. 20, 1S54 to lend the Kramers S3, 500 be repaid with 6 per cent per annum interest. She also stated orcr to obtain the loan, the Kramers - placed a mortage on 0orx)e real property they owned o (in "the Mdford area. She claims tnat the Kramers are behind on payments and that they now owe her $3,171.62 principal, 174.81 interest on the principal to Dec. 1. 1956 also aks interest at the rate of 6 per cent per winum from Dec. 1. 1956 nritil the amount is paid. Mrs. Brown asks that the mortg age be foreclosed and the prop erty sold in order to repay her. She also seeks S267 attorney's fees. C Reprr-enting Mrs Brown is the Medford law firm of Skyr man, Ouellette and Heisc-1.' Students Said Dodging Science Courses Because of Bad Spelling WRONG WAY Stamford, Conn. (UR; Mrs Bealrice Slincy was arrested for driving 40- miles an hour in a 55-mile-anhour zone. She was backing up. BY DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York 'UP A new ex planation of why science courses are not popular with college stu dents was offered today. It is because so many students leave elementary and high schools un able to spell even the most simple words. Dr. Kenneth B. M. Crooks, a professor of zoology, told the an nual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, that for some years a depressing proportion of his college students use the follow ing spellings (among others no less shocking): Nerse, blud, ginny pig, anamal, brane, human bean, colur, divilop, docter. curcle. skecter. punkin. worf, and writting. So it follows, he said, that when kids who spell that way, come to college they're afraid of sci ence courses because of new and "big" words they'll have to spell. The relative lack of interest of college students in science is an extremely serious matter, and the AAA's meeting devoted much time to it. With the developing of atomic travel, it is an always increasing scientific and tech nical world. Colleges simply aren't turning out enough sci entists and engineers to meet i America's future need for tech nical know-how. Various explanations were of fered at the AAA's sessions, hav ing to do with lack of effort to interest children in science, im proper teaching or unqualified ; teachers of elementary science in high schools, and absence of sufficient "motivation" to give ' youngsters a scientific bent. Prof. Crooks, of the faculty of j the State College. Fort Valley, ' Ga., blamed the whole teaching set-up in elementary and high : schools. He's been studying the : misspellines of college science students for 26 years, he said, ' adding: "It is well known that college students do not read, ; write or comprehend as well as : they should. This study proves 1 that they cannot spell, either." He charged that "carelessness and laziness are apparently en couraged in our circus-style schoolroom s." Furthermore, "'most school teaching of spelling I is beneath their dignity. Hence, i pupils who have learned to spell have probably taught themselves, or have learned in spite of their teachers." Wrong Procedure He said many youngsters come to college without knowing the alphabet "nor that letters have sounds." Elementary teach ing now places emphasis on read ing, never on spelling. ine kids get away with cheating t that is another reason. Still an i other is that lower school teach ing methods, "tend to encourage haste, shallow thinking, and superficiality." j Not only are lower schools to ; blame. The "national affliction, sloganitis," has to share it be cause many slogans "engrave wrong spellings in the young mind s." Adult "inventiveness" i has telescoped spellings. He cited I the "horror" of "Jaxanville" for 1 Jacksonville. ; "Since readingand-spelling , and writing-and-spelling are two I sides of the same coin, they must I be given back the important place they have lost in our cur ricula, if we are to attract to the I sciences and technology the num j ber of young persons now needed and urgently needed in the near ' future, to enable us to keep I America strong and free," he ' said. PHEASANT FOR ONE Ripley. Me. (U.R) Fred Reese thought for a moment that the bird fluttering up in front of him was a chicken. But a closer look showed that the pure white fowl was a pheasant. He quickly raised his gun and brought down the rare albino specimen. .Reforestation Firm Organizes in Medford I Southern Oregon Reforesta- tion company, a new seed plant- ing and forest improvement firm, ; will officially open in Medford ; Jan. 1. j The county clerk's office re ; ported Thursday that Owen H. j and Maxine M. Thomas. 1781 : Myers lane, have assumed the : company name. The firm's head ! quarters will be located at the j Thomas residence, j According to Thomas, the com ! pany's services will include cone collecting, seed extraction, purn : ing and blister rust work as well , as tree planting in burned or ; logged over areas. Thomas will operate as a private contractor i for such agencies as the bureau j of land management, forest serv ice and lumber companies. I Thomas, formerly associated , with ilcCready and Thomas cora ) pany of Medford. specialists in I reforestation, plans to work ' mostly in the southern Oregon and northern California areas. , He has recently been reforest- ing the Haystack burn area north of Yreka. His former partner, Tom Mc Cready, will also work on an in dependent basis. McCready is currently working in Aberdeen, Wash. I Friday, December 28, 13S8 MEDFORD (OBtaOS) WAIL f IfUE THlEE Prizes! FUN AND FAVORS For Ail! 7t "c o c tot fa. ewfSl NEW YEAR'S 0 oo i u r ik i I! FOR ELKS AKD I3YITED GUESTS 0 DEC. 31st - AT THE CLUBC DANCING chicken DINNlVc IADIES PAtTY DtESSfcS or FOtMftlS MEN BUSINESS SUITS $7.50cpr o WC KE JUKK I troupe W Hollywood won't b here due to. illrwss . but well hoe IrllN anyway! c The" first recorded harness rac ing meet was held at Harlem, N.Y., in 1806. O O USE TRIBUTE WANT APS r, o c O O TGa o O O O WHILE STOCK LASTS! co O O 3 0 O , ci cReg. Price $439.95 Model K67F12- 0 12 CU. FT. 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